A Date With Socrates

The philosophy of dating.

by Kristie Miller

No Time to Plan

When someone says that they have no time to plan, we assume they have a busy schedule and cannot spare a moment to sit down and plan for the future. Obviously, that’s a bad thing. But here’s a startling claim: none of us have any time to plan, because it turns out that there is no time. Read More

Food, Fads and Fish: Eating Nemo

Here’s something I hear a lot when dietary restrictions are discussed prior to ordering food at a restaurant “I’m vegetarian, but I eat fish”. This is an interesting claim that bears further reflection. Read More

Time and Change

Is time washing over you? Read More

The Right, the Wrong and the Disgusting

Disgusting, therefore wrong? Read More

Being Obnoxious: Apologies in Advance

Can you apologize before you do the deed? Read More

For Art’s Sake: The Ethics of the Tattooed Pig

I recently visited a modern art gallery with a few friends. One of the exhibitions was a series of pig skins tattooed with various patterns. There's nothing terribly exciting about that. Somewhat later, a separate exhibition was a film of a pig farm in China. It depicted live pigs living on the farm; the only notable thing about the pigs was that they all had tattoos on their bodies. Read More

Our 'personal' nature

Our "personal" nature Read More

Chatting with your younger self

In a previous post I considered some questions about the nature of agency and decision in the context of considering someone who travels back in time. Read More

The totalitarian “I”

Licensing changes to our future selves< Read More

The Psychology of a Time Traveller (I)

Making decisions in the past< Read More

Ethics in the corporate world

WikiLeaks and the Payment Processors

What’s the link between eugenics and euthanasia?

How do we get from euthanasia to eugenics? Read More

How to tarnish a view

Here is something that is beyond doubt, at least by any reasonable person. The Nazi's engaged in morally horrendous behaviours. In the name of what they called racial purity, based on hopeless flawed science they cobbled together for their own political purposes, they murdered millions of people. Read More

A good death: On the curious status of arguments in the debate about euthanasia

Voluntary smoking but not voluntary euthanasia? Read More

On Free Choice and our Future Selves (Part 2)

Bad Choices: Are you rolling the dice on your future self? Read More

On free choices and our future selves

Are you tying up the future you? Read More

Kristie Miller is a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Dating: Philosophy for Everyone.

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About A Date With Socrates

This is an eclectic blog that considers questions about our nature as autonomous decision-making moral agents. "What makes something a good choice?"; "who is it a good choice for?"; "how to we go about making good decisions?" are some questions this blog considers. My research is mainly in metaphysics considering questions about the nature of time and space-time. So sometimes I will also raise questions such as "does time flow?" "Do objects move through time?" and "Is time travel possible?"